The Uptime Institute has announced its new Outage Severity Rating (OSR) to help the digital infrastructure and data centre community better understand and articulate service outages in the context of how each incident affects the business. With OSR, infrastructure practitioners can finally share a common lexicon when forming their own service delivery capacity strategies and can view their […]

Award-winning Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider BSO has strengthened its capabilities within the wholesale telecoms, cloud and technology sectors with the acquisition of IX Reach, a global provider of network services. This development significantly reshapes the marketplace, in particular for cloud providers, wholesale carriers, CDNs and data centre operators, and it marks the latest […]

Synology Inc has released the latest update of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 6.2.2, featuring a series of new functionalities that not only optimise user navigation but also enhance system performance. “DSM 6.2 has demonstrated field-proven reliability with over 3.4 million Synology NAS running it. Tailor-made for your IT infrastructure and ready to fit into any environment, […]

Trent Odgers, Cloud and Hosting Manager for Southern Africa at Veeam, looks at the role of data protection in  a multi-cloud strategy.  For all its benefits, adopting a multi-cloud approach in the digital business landscape does not come without risks. Given the importance of safeguarding data amidst evolving regulatory requirements, companies can ill afford not […]

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation, has announced it has added the new Easy UPS 3M, a 60 kVA to 100 kVA (400V) Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS), to its 3-Phase UPS family of products. Available in most countries, the Easy UPS 3M personifies simplicity as it is easy to install, easy […]

A leading bank in Ethiopia has digitally innovated its business thanks to the help of VMware. The Bank of Abyssinia (BOA) needed to scale and improve both its production and disaster recovery environments, and be a more digitally inclusive business, but was inhibited by exorbitant costs of new equipment and long delivery cycles. Established in […]

We ‘Deep Dive’ with Peter Westwood, UK Data Centre Director, SPIE, who tells us about life inside and outside the office. What would you describe as your most memorable achievement in the data centre industry? I have been very fortunate in my career to have worked on some of the largest data centre projects in […]

MainOne, a leading connectivity and data centre solutions provider, has advised Africa’s Research and Education Networks (RENs) not to relent in its effort to improve the region’s research and educational capability through collaborations with MainOne and other innovative technology solutions providers. The company’s Business Executive for Francophone West Africa and Ghana, Kazeem Oladepo made the […]

Mark Gaydos, Chief Marketing Officer, Nlyte Software, discusses the CMDB danger signs of which organisations need to be aware.  An accurate configuration management database, or CMDB, is the foundation for functions that contribute to critical business performance. Areas such as service management, operations management, asset management, cybersecurity, cloud operations and organisational compliance with regulations all fall […]

Worldwide spending on data centre systems is projected to decrease in 2019 – while overall IT spending is projected to total US$3.79 trillion in 2019, an increase of 1.1% from 2018, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. Gartner says the data centre systems segment is expected to experience the largest decline in 2019 […]